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IMPROVED GUNPOWDER-OANISTBR.

TO ALL WHQM IT MAY CONCERN; A

Be it known that I OLIN SCOTT, of Benniugton, in the county of Benningtn, and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gunpowder-Canister and I do hreby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact desription there0f, which will enable others skil1ed in the art to make and use the same, reference being hdd to the aecompanying-drawings, forming part of this specification.

This irivention re1ates t0 a new and improved method of constrnctng canibt ers for contaminggunpowder, and itconsists in forming the same of tin or other suitable metal of a hexagonal or similar form, with corrugated"sides and heads, a nd in s'ecuring the heads in the canister byseams or otherwise, aswill be hereinai'ter described. Y Y Y By this construction several advantags are:ohtained, some ofwhich are enumerated. First, more powder can be stored in a given}spaoe than when cy1indrical kegs are employed. This is an important consideration,

in view 0fthe fact thton shiphoard, especially, every available space must he occupied. Sec6rid, a keg of this form is not so 1iable to roll about during transportation as when made round. For this reason the keg is not liable to he damaged so as to lose its contents and canse danger. By makingthe opening in the head near an angie, the keg is more readi1y emptied of its contents than is the case with a round keg.

Figure 1 is a vertical-central Section of the canister through the linez z of fig. 2.

Figure 2 is a top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondng parts.

The canister is hexagonal or six-sided in shape, as seen in fig. 2, with the sides formd of a single piee'e or sheet of sheet metal, which is corrugated, as seen in the seetional drawing, fig. 1. By corrugating the sides in this manner the can is greatlj stiened and strengthened, as will he underst0od by all who are acquainted with eorrugated sheet metal. The heads of the canister are also corruga.ted, as seen in the sectional drawing, and the heads are secured in a.seam or lock, es seen in the drawing. The corrugations in the sides are indicated by the letter a, in the heads by the letter b. c. is the aperture for introducing the powder, which aperture is closed by a screw-thimbl plug. d represents the seem by which the heads are secured.

Havmg thus described mj invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

As a new article of nianufacture, a metallic gunpowder-keg or canister of hexagonal or po1ygonal form, with the sides and heads corrugated, the heads being secured by seaming, and one of the heads having anopen inginit, near an alngle, al1 constructed and arranged as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 18th day of June, 1867.

OLIN SCOTT.

Witnesses:

T. J. TIFEANY, J. R. Gomas. 

